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...this reason, your best bet for finding someone equally frisky (and down with a no-strings-attached fling), is definitely the Internet. Finding a website for this isn’t difficult—for the inelegant approach, you can Google what you’re after; sites like craigslist.org often have propositions already up and ready for you (ahem) so you can chose someone you’re comfortable with. Again, be up front about what you want; it’ll help you stay safe and avoid disappointment...

Author: By Sara J. Culver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR SARA | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

Reading the book in such a manner makes it easier to understand its format—every chapter is about a specific interaction Hannah has with her family or men in her life (a first boyfriend; the man she who she wants to love her; a fling) over a 14-year period...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking for Love, But Finding Frustration | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Ride a bull for a living, and you can be the richest rag doll on earth. All you have to do is last eight excruciating seconds on an agitated 1,800-lb. animal that would like nothing more than to smash you against the sideboards of the arena, fling you off its back and gore you with its horns. On the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour, concussions and broken bones are as common as Wranglers and brass-buckled belts. "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bring On the Bulls | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...onto the situation in Africa. And her protestations that "this is why I am famous, so that I can help people," do nothing to stop skepticism. But Sachs, who will accompany her to Malawi in October, is not among the cynics. "Of course there are people who on a fling say something, but that's not what Madonna's doing," he says. "In the very noisy and complicated world that we have, people that reach large numbers of people, like Madonna does, have an extraordinarily important role to play. When they're devoting their time, their money, their name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna Finds A Cause | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

Katrina didn't just fling barges across bayous--it ripped a hole in the nation's economy. The storm crippled oil and gas production in the Gulf, idled refineries and chemical-processing plants and devastated New Orleans' $7 billion tourism industry. The city stands to lose more than $500 million a month in visitor dollars. J. Stephen Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion Dollar Blowout: Billion Dollar Blowout | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

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